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Is there an easy (custom) way to GET a url on Android?

Kind of an XY problem, so I'm hoping that I'm just missing something stupid simple.

I found this tool (which is super cool) rss-librarian and I'm looking to make it stupid simple to send things I find on my phone to the url associated with my "account". I already have a bookmarklet set up in firefox on my laptop.

First thought was that I could use the "share" ability to simply share a cool link with a URL, but that seems to require some dev work. Second thought was to use Tasker to script something out, but that's looking to be a medium level of complicated. So, hopefully, there is something simple that I'm missing or don't know about that I could do to use this functionality from my phone.

Any suggestions? If not, I'll have to learn tasker :(

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    nocut12
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    Couldn't you use the same bookmarklet on your phone? Seems like they work normally on the android version of firefox. I don't really use chrome, but apparently they work there too

    Couldn't you use the same bookmarklet on your phone? Seems like they work normally on the android version of firefox. I don't really use chrome, but apparently they work there too

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    1. scrambo
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      After attempting to use the bookmark, it seems to just redirect me to the page linked in the bookmarklet, not adding it to my list in rss-librarian. Not too big of an issue though, as I did hack...

      After attempting to use the bookmark, it seems to just redirect me to the page linked in the bookmarklet, not adding it to my list in rss-librarian.

      Not too big of an issue though, as I did hack together a small tasker thing that does exactly what I need for the moment and works perfectly... Surprisingly.

      EDIT: Using the bookmarklet requires more interaction than just using the share functionality from android which is why I was leaning that way first. If you can get a bookmarklet to work, it sounds like a good workaround if you don't want to use tasker.